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India Supreme Court upholds law restricting foreign donations to NGOs

JURIST

They also challenged Sections 12 and 17, which mandated all foreign contributions to be deposited in an FCRA-specific account created in a specified branch of a scheduled bank.

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Pakistan Supreme Court begins hearings on Afghan refugee deportations

JURIST

The deportations prompted the signatories of the petition to deposit their request to the Supreme Court, urging the court to revoke the government’s decision as a breach of “the fundamental rights of approximately 4.4

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

district court to order a person who “resides or is found” in its jurisdiction to provide document discovery or deposition “for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal.” The post SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. 1782 , which allow a U.S.

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Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times In Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

Note that this is not a finding of actual malice but it will allow the Project to plunge into discovery, including depositions, and possible a trial. Plaintiff is entitled to try to establish whether NYT’s writers were purposely and/or recklessly inaccurate, or whether they were inaccurate, sloppy, or something less.

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Banking on Censorship: Sen. Kelly Becomes Latest Democrat to Suggest Barring Opposing Views on Social Media

JonathanTurley

In a Zoom call this week with a couple hundred participants, Kelly asked representatives from the Federal Reserve , Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation about censoring social media to remove those raising doubts over bank solvency in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank crises.

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Could Cosby Sue For Wrongful Conviction?

JonathanTurley

agreed not to charge Cosby in return for his civil deposition. In their 79-page opinion, the judges found that a “non-prosecution agreement” reached with Cosby should have barred the prosecution. In the earlier agreement, the prosecutor, Bruce Castor Jr., He proceeded to incriminate himself in what the Court said was a bait-and-switch.

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Petito’s Parents File Lawsuit Against Laundrie’s Parents Over the Murder of their Daughter

JonathanTurley

Indeed, this lawsuit may be an effort to force the Laundrie family into discovery and depositions to force out what they knew about the murder. I understand the frustration and anger of the Petito family. However, they first must prevail in an inevitable motion to dismiss.

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